Who I Am.

Matt's War Remix

Bret Schlein's 'Every Girl' Remix

Go here to view my remix: http://astro.temple.edu/~tua61850/Remix_Every_Girl_2.ppsx

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My purpose for making this remix was to point out different female stereotypes of beauty that are in our culture. I did this by using the song 'Every Girl' by Lil' Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gutta, + Mack Maine. Over the song, I used various images of women, throughout the slide show. Without stating what the stereotypes for beauty are for women, I let the song and images do that for themselves. The audience for the remix is intended for this class only, especially since JumpCut is shutting down. I want the audience (the class) to watch the remix and interpret it in their own ways. Each person thinks differently. I do want each person to be able to pick out the different stereotypes of women that stand out, through the combination of the song and the constant photos of different women.

I used Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create my remix. I used many images that I found using various websites, such as Google Images, Live.com, and Photobucket. In order to portray the messages that I wanted to use, I used various techniques. One technique was to select images that fit into two different themes; beautiful women and stereotypically ugly women. I chose the song, 'Every Girl,' so that many of the images would fit well with the song, while the others would clash. I also placed certain images at certain points of the song, so that it would create new meanings, when the original meanings of the song and image clashed.

My remix is a fair use of source texts, because it is transformative. Using the images that I used, along with the song, I added new values and purposes to both forms of media.

Enjoy my remix,

--Bret Schlein

My Life in a Slideshow

1) The purpose of my remix is to express part of who I am as an individual with a series of images from my life and captions that describe these images. My audience is whoever sees the blog where the remix is posted, as well as my Myspace where I also posted the remix, and possibly my Facebook if I decide to post it there as well for my friends to see. It will circulate on these three websites only as far as I am concerned. My intended meaning behind the remix was to express some of my interests and hobbies, as well as the people and things that I care most about.
2) The techniques and choices that I used to create and communicate my remix were to pull a variety of images over the years that displayed a bunch of different aspects of my life, and make these pictures come alive in colorful and unique ways. By adding captions with color, as well as the heart transitions between slides, it helped me to more creatively show who I am as a person, and not just post a bunch of pictures, but rather make them pop and stand out.
3) I believe that everything that I portrayed is of fair use, because many of the images were taken by my friends and I on my camera, and so they were mine to use as I pleased, and the ones in which I took from the Internet I used in my own fashion and with my captions, and so I transformed them for a specific purpose, that being entertainment. The slideshow website that I used provided me the options of color and background/transitions, and so everything that I did to make my slideshow come alive was all within boundary of avoiding copyrighting. I believe that it is transformative, because although I am sure that there are other slideshows out there like it, no other slideshow is exactly like mine in that it has the exact same images, captions, and so on, and so mine is unique to who I am as an individual, and it sticks to what the fair use video guidelines lay out as being reasonable and within fair use rather than crossing over to copyrighting.